Please explain the following.

[magnificientben]

Please, i will like you to throw morw lights on the following.


S.M.A.R.T Errors on /dev/hda
From Command: /usr/sbin/smartctl -q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error /dev/hda
Warning: ATA error count 9683 inconsistent with error log pointer 5

ATA Error Count: 9683 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
Error 9683 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2175 hours
Error 9682 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2175 hours
Error 9681 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2175 hours
Error 9680 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2175 hours
Error 9679 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2175 hours
----END /dev/hda--

[katmai]

my suggestion is try changing the hard drive. i had 3 hard drive failures for ignoring this type of warnings. now i learnt my lesson really.